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Stash Enhancement

Do you remember at the beginning of the year, when I said to myself, “NO BUYING SOCK YARN!” Well, in anticipation of Summer of Socks 2008 (which I signed up for ages ago and completely forgot about and starts today, the first day of summer), I would like to present photographic evidence of the progression of the stash: It is either scary or awesome, depending on your point of view. (In other words, no buying sock yarn = big fat fail.)

Exhibit A (February 2007):

State of the Sock Yarn Stash

A respectable stash! Some good colors, quality yarn, something to be proud of.

Exhibit B (August 2007):

Sock Yarn Stash as of 8.11.07

Larger, but still respectable. A noticeable love of winding skeins into cakes is starting to come into light. (I bought my swift at Stitches West 2007).

Exhibit C (June 2008):

The State of the Sock Yarn Stash

ZOMG I need to start knitting.

If you click on the second two pictures, I have tagged them in Flickr with the different kinds of yarn. I also maybe possibly made an order at the Loopy Ewe yesterday. OH SHUSH.

However, may I present to you the latest in my upcoming interests:

Yeah, my birthday is in two weeks, and I’m going to use birthday money to hella score a rigid heddle loom. This particular model has everything you could need, and folds up, and turns into a warping board. I’m really excited – I think it will be a great way to use some of the stash, and I’ve been really impressed with some of the weaving I’ve seen around the internets.

If you’ll recall, I’m definitely more of a product over process knitter, and weaving seems to me a great way to get a product, even if to set up it’s somewhat time consuming. I’m looking forward to ordering the loom and getting started on teaching myself a new skill.

Here’s to crafting!

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the zombies are coming


the zombies are coming, originally uploaded by Pynnski.

This is pretty much all I did all weekend, aside from:

  1. Cleaning out my room, and my closet, which resulted in two large garbage bags full of great clothes for the Oakland Rescue Mission and the reappearance of the carpeting.
  2. Stepping on a live cockroach, barefoot.
  3. Hanging out with my sister, who brought me the above copy of The Zombie Survival Guide (can you believe I didn’t already have it? Craziness! Abby rocks!)
  4. RSVPing to my cousin’s upcoming wedding in Redding.
  5. Working on (and fucking up the increases on) the February Lady Sweater.
  6. Eating too many carbs on Father’s Day, which has left me feeling rather bloated and wilty. Abby and I took our dad out to breakfast and we feasted upon eggs and biscuits and gravy. Later we had a luncheon at the parentals’ house for my grandfolks that was full of potatoes, corn, meatballs, homemade bread…
  7. Thinking about stepping on that cockroach barefooted.

So, not too much crafting going on around here – I am still waiting for my Box of Stuff from Texas to get here. Or, get shipped, whichever.

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I Heart Pig

I love pig in most of its delicious incarnations. So when I say that the new (ish?) edition of The Anticraft is pro-bacon, may I just say that I whole-heartedly support this silly endeavor?

Mmm, bacon scarf.

I was sort of thinking about spending the month of August vegan, just for kicks, to see how I felt when I ditched even more of the things I like to eat. I may wait until I am not living with Jason anymore, because I don’t think he can handle a vegan experiment – he barely can handle my South Beach (“Can’t you eat potatoes?” “It’s not on the list!”) and I have a list posted of all the food I can eat on the cupboard. Sigh.

Still, I would never go vegan all the way, or even vegetarian. Because I just love pig.


picture stolen from here

I am currently working on the February Lady Sweater (Rav link) in a dark copper Red Heart soft. No decent pictures yet because I actually lost my camera battery charger for a week (I thought it was still in Texas) and finally located it this morning when my mom came over to help me clean my room. Yes, cleaning my room is a two man job. You should be so lucky to have so many books and a ridiculous yarn stash.

I also want to show pictures of my new shoe rack and an action shot of the Mexican Peasant Blouse my mom made me, but that will just have to wait for another day.